BRISTOL & NORTH SOMERSET RAILWAY WALK
RADSTOCK TO GREAT ELM
"RADSTOCK TO MELLS ROAD"
(From two visits on the 4th and 13th of Aug. 2019)
Radstock West Station Site from the ex level crossing site. Between
Frome Road (left) and Fortescue Road (right). (Google Earth).
The building on the far left is the only building remaining from the
railway period. However, I am not sure if it had anything to do
with the railway.
Frome Road. Site of Radstock station West was on the left. The level
crossing was just up ahead passing
on the left of the shop and heading for Bristol.
Close to the photo above. Only the shop remains. The signal box and
crossing gates were dismantled and rebuilt at
The Great Western Railway Society at Didcot. This photo is available
to purchase on the internet without the copyright
marking. (Author Unknown).
Left: From the same spot above. The houses on
the right are built upon the track bed. looking south towards
Frome. Right: Difficult to believe this was a
railway line heading southwards.
The track bed continues directly ahead through the trees. Also the
site of the wagon works.
Old shed from the Radstock Wagon Works at Fox Hills.
This is the spot where the branch line went off to the right to Ludlows
Colliery, over the S&D and to Tyning Collery.
The curve from the GWR branch to Tyning Colliery (NLS Maps). See photo
above.
The footpath to Great Elm wiih the rails of the track bed hidden in
the under growth on the left.
From the southern edge of the new housing state the track bed is
hidden in
the undergrowth
The Kilmersdon Colliery branch on the left and the branch to Upper
Writhlington colliery to the right. Just to the
south another short branch ran into Huish Colliery. (NLS Maps).
The first sighting of the rails.
Around this area there was a triangle junction on the right leading to
Kilmersdon Colliery and on the left a branch to a coal depot and on to
Lower
Writhlington Colliery. A little further to the south there was a
branch to Huish Colliery.
Kilmersdon village from the track bed.
Footpath to Kilmersdon Village.
Farm access bridge.
Babington Road Bridge.
Hatchet Hill Bridge.
The new path runs down the western edge of the old track bed which is to
the left.
Approaching Mells Road station site. The width of the track bed is due to
the track being in the broad gauge.
Mells Road station site.
Left: The Vobster branch went off to the
right.
Right: Approaching Mells Road station from Radstock.
The Vobster branch is seen going off to the left. Mells Road
station was immediately to the right.
Mells Road station Looking northwards. Wagons stand on the goods line.
Mells Road station site looking towards Radstock.
Mells Road station. A passenger train waits on the Radstock platform.
Mells Road station. The signal box is seen up ahead.
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